taylor felt this took the students' attention away from their academic pursuits and resulteded at fencing at wind mills because the women who didn't want to follow the rules found ways around them. taylor set out to dismantle the regulation apparatus at ku. history has recognized the dissolution of parietals, but they've been recognized as a student driven phenomenon in the '60s likely because they focused on the kay owes of the mid to late portion of the decade. indeed by looking at news reports this seems like a very reasonable explanation. in 1966 when the aws passed a motion to allow all but freshmen women to have keys to their residence, the vote produced a storm of protests from parents and citizens across the state. historian beth bailey took a close look at the chancellor's correspondence whereby parent after parent wrote criticizing women's desires to have keys to their residence because that would allow them to avoid curfews which meant they could stay out late with boys. without oral history, the interpretation that women students drove the resistance to parietals seems reasona